Civil Politics (6/19/26): Juneteenth is American History
Jun 22, 2026 · 56 min · 13 segments
Jun 22, 2026 · 56 min · 13 segments
Michael DowHostJohnraHost
Sue TimberlakeHost
well you should just put the lotion in the basket though anyway um speaking of horrifying uh uh demands um yeah actually i don't know if they're horrifying but uh uh the memorandum of understanding the sort of outlines of some kind of deal to stop fighting one another in the Strait of Hormuz has sort of started to trickle out to the world between the U.S. and Iran.
It's like, why do we celebrate this? You know, it was really Texas and blah, blah, blah, blah.
California wasn't even a state, so they probably shouldn't celebrate it, right?
Also, the Juneteenth is about when news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which is, you know, like the most famous presidential act of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, you know, like sort of the high watermark for the party.
But we were talking about Opal Lee and they call her the godmother, the grandmother of Juneteenth.
well you should just put the lotion in the basket though anyway um speaking of horrifying uh uh demands um yeah actually i don't know if they're horrifying but uh uh the memorandum of understanding the sort of outlines of some kind of deal to stop fighting one another in the Strait of Hormuz has sort of started to trickle out to the world between the U.S. and Iran.
It's like, why do we celebrate this? You know, it was really Texas and blah, blah, blah, blah.
California wasn't even a state, so they probably shouldn't celebrate it, right?
Also, the Juneteenth is about when news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which is, you know, like the most famous presidential act of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, you know, like sort of the high watermark for the party.
But we were talking about Opal Lee and they call her the godmother, the grandmother of Juneteenth.
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